Watch Comedian Chelsea Peretti Roast Silicon Valley at Their Own Award Show

Silicon Valley: YA BURNT!

Tuesday night, comedian Chelsea Peretti hosted TechCrunch’s Crunchies Awards, which are basically Silicon Valley's Oscars but "without the pressure of public interest." The 9th annual show took place at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco. Chelsea, whose brother Jonah is the CEO of BuzzFeed, opened the show by completely destroying the rich men who have taken over the majority of the Bay Area, saying to the audience, "I love what you did with the poor people."

Next, she continued to take digs at the insanely wealthy, mostly male tech industry. Chelsea, who stars on the Emmy award-winning Brooklyn 99, went on to say that she was specifically asked to speak on diversity. She then suggested TechCrunch try hiring a non-white host. Her roast continued as she called out the audience in the balcony and asked, "is that where you hide away the female leadership?"

Silicon Valley is notorious for its dismal ratio of male to female employees. In 2014, the Washington Post discovered that only about 12% of software engineers (the people who build apps and stuff) at major tech companies and start-ups are women.

The most scandalous joke had to be the one targeting Uber, which has made headlines for ethical concerns, particularly involving the safety of female passengers. Chelsea said, "If this were basketball, Lyft would be the Clippers and Uber would be Kobe Bryant, because of all the rape stuff."

A list of winners from the Crunchies can be found here, and you can watch the full opening monologue below.